Tara Helen O'Connor

ABOUT TARA

Tara Helen O'Connor is a charismatic performer noted for her artistic depth, brilliant technique, and colorful tone spanning every musical era. Winner of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and a two-time Grammy nominee, she is now a season artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. A Wm. S. Haynes flute artist, Tara regularly participates in the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Music@Menlo, the Chamber Music Festival of the Bluegrass, Spoleto USA, Chamber Music Northwest, Mainly Mozart Festival, Music from Angel Fire, the Banff Centre, the Great Mountains Music Festival, Chesapeake Music Festival and the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival.

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Des Canyons Aux Etoiles

Entertainment One Music/ENT.ONE Music (EOMCD7795),
Aug 2016 (CD)

Composers: Messiaen
Artists: Alan Gilbert, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Orchestra Inon Barnatan, Philip Myers, Daniel Druckman and Jeffrey Milarsky

Music and its Double

Tzadik (8092),
Oct 2012 (CD)

Composers: John Zorn
Artists: Tara Helen O'Connor, Josh Rubin, Jennifer Choi, David Fulmer, Mike Nicolas, Fred Sherry, June Han, Anu Komsi, Al Lipowski, Joe Pereira, William Winant, Kenny Wollesen, Brad Lubman, Sakari Oramo, Lahti Symphony Orchestra

DVD: Live From Lincoln Center Simple Gifts: The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Shaker Village

PBS Distribution ( LVLC601),
Oct 2016 (CD)

Composers: Copland, Dvorak, Barber, Foster and O'Connor
Artists: Tara Helen O’Connor, David Shifrin, Peter Kolkay, Gilles Vonsattel, Wu Han, Kristin Lee, Arnaud Sussmann, Paul Neubauer, David Finckel, Daxun Zhang, The Escher String Quartet: Adam Barnett-Hart, Aaron Boyd, Pierre LaPointe and Brook Speltz

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